NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

by Xenia Makridou

Here’s what I found on the web today. So pessimistic and yet, so realistic. It can’t possibly be a good idea to live in daydreams and dreamworlds, right? Because it’s those times that one needs to face reality, and reality proves to be nothing like what they’ve imagined it to be, that life seems so incredibly harsh and unfair. And yet, it’d be so awful to live without the spark, the expectation…

‘Nothing lasts forever. Forever is a lie.’ But, what is ‘forever’ anyway? ‘All we have is what’s in between hello and goodbye.’ Could we possibly extend this ‘hello’ and this ‘goodbye’ to include ‘forever’?

And there’s always the choice of just accepting the circumstances. That’s life. When one door closes, another opens. We’ve said this before. A goodbye is replaced by a hello and it goes on…